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by marcusf 14y ago
Dear god what buzz-word laden soup. Switch out the brands and this article could just as well be about Nokia or GM or whatever BigCo.
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by marcusf 14y ago
You can, just hide the tags that you don't want to see. "Ignored Tags", top right on the home page.
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by marcusf 14y ago
I'm still not sure how this solves the personalization use case. Usually (I think) the main problem is rendering the page, not pushing it down the wire. So if you still need to render for each request for a personalized page to make sure it
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by marcusf 14y ago
The entire media space, for example? TV, magazines, newspapers, radio, …
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by marcusf 14y ago
But they were never mass market in the same way. Walk on to the tube today and 70% will have their noses buried in an iPhone (or less often, a 'droid). That wasn't the case with either PDA's or pocket TV's. Possibly with walkmans/iPods.
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by marcusf 14y ago
Thanks very much! Might be finally time to cough up the dough for TAOCP then and take it from there.
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by marcusf 14y ago
Just an amateur, so speculation abound. But presumably, on the basis that other investors that you hope will value it higher will use the P/E ratio as a metric as well, and that it gives a comparative metric between "similar" companies. E.g
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by marcusf 14y ago
Probably based on experience, it wasn't like that initially if I remember correctly.
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by marcusf 14y ago
I find stuff like this terribly interesting, so please elaborate. Any journal or so that is recommended for someone curious?
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by marcusf 14y ago
I remember Swedens first social network, StajlPlejs, started at 96 and changed name to LunarStorm in 2000. Had about 20% of Sweden on that site. Well before 2004.
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by marcusf 14y ago
I've gone through my fair share of Apple HW. I'll agree it's not without its failures. Broke a Powerbook G4 logic board, a MBP screen and one old iPod (abt 30% of what I've owned of Apple HW). What I've found which makes me happy though is
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by marcusf 14y ago
The commenter you responded to did provide a case for Apple trying to fix that though, didn't he? I'd expect it to be rolled out across the next refresh of the product line. Might be naive?
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by marcusf 14y ago
As opposed to vocational coding/programming/hacking. Seems like you're being facetious for the point of it?
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by marcusf 14y ago
I don't think you truly believe that though. Most people who hack daily have at least a basic working model of the computer. There's a compiler parsing, generating code, there's possibly a VM executing bytecode, an operating system managing
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by marcusf 14y ago
I doubt Bloomberg uses eight grade chemistry, biology or physics in his day job either. We still teach the sciences -- if nothing else than as a way to entice kids to continue studying it and keeping a steady influx of engineers in to socie
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by marcusf 14y ago
Ok, sorry, I misunderstood. I had lingering memories of the critiques against groupons earlier non-GAAP measures [1][2][3][4][5][6] but the non-GAAP net income mostly seems to exclude stock, acquistion costs are pretty low and very clearly
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by marcusf 14y ago
Yeah but the non-GAAP numbers exclude customer acquisition costs (e.g. marketing). Not sure why that's excluded as marketing is a continuous and fundamental cost of doing business.
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by marcusf 14y ago
So revenues up from $295m to $559m and operating income from -$146mn to $-12mn. Managing to grow revenue while narrowing the gap to black by quite a margin, good on them. I just wish they would quite re-stating the non-GAAP numbers. What va
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by marcusf 14y ago
I just spent an inordinate amount of time reading up on LSH for images. In the system we develop, people tend to upload images from their desktop time and again instead of searching in the system. Part of it is a UI challenge, we have to ma
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by marcusf 14y ago
That was my first reaction as well, but I'm going to leave cynicism to the side here. Faking cancer is ways and leagues beyond faking a CS degree and I just don't want to spend the energy required to believe anyone would do that.
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by marcusf 14y ago
Cancer is never well timed, but this has to takes the cake. The perils of public life? Thyroid cancer took my father at about the same age; I truly feel for Scott Thompson and his family and hope they found it early and for his speedy reco
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by marcusf 14y ago
I've worked with one or two of those (out of about something like a hundred, I'd guess). Both came from technology and had engineering degres but had figured out they preferred sales. I'm not sure that's the sole reason, but they really did
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by marcusf 14y ago
I've only followed this case at a bit of a distance, but it seems to me that Judge William Alsup is a fantastic jurist, and very amusing at that.
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by marcusf 14y ago
Yeah, I admit the metaphor was weak. I wanted to head to lunch. I was thinking a flock of wolves requires a different gun than a single bear unless you want to be flooded in wolves.
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by marcusf 14y ago
But if that's the information you're after, why ask for golf balls and busses? These are real world quantities with decidedly different qualities than whatever appears in standard computing scenarios. Describing how you'd go about troublesh
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by marcusf 14y ago
Walking around in general felt painful - For example: I got stuck getting in to the first cave because I was standing on the wrong spot, so I had to walk around a bit to move forward, though the environment really didn't give me any clues t
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by marcusf 14y ago
The main problem is when you're going bear hunting and they bring back a stampede of wolves. Wholly impossible to kill with the gun you brought, but if you tweak it just a little, you can kill them as well. Then the next time it's a an antl
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by marcusf 14y ago
I'm not fond of brain teasers either, but small, self-contained questions have value. Often if they're simple enough you can use them in many interviews and establish a base line (if the candidate did a, b or c she will usually work out, if
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by marcusf 14y ago
This is very cool -- I love that we're seeing more and more open source work on making web game engines that are not Flash. Stuff like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope were very cool, and it's good to see more frameworks and libraries for takin
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by marcusf 14y ago
I must've missed the build up for all of this because all I got was a very, very buggy interface and two floating guys insulting me and I didn't get it. That said, I did enjoy SpaceQuest as a kid -- looking at Wikipedia, I wasn't more than

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